twitterhistory: a Python tool to download historical Twitter data

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Fink, C. (2021). twitterhistory: a Python tool to download historical Twitter data (Version 0.2.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.4471196

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Download posts and user metadata from the microblogging service Twitter. This is a Python module to download posts and user metadata from the microblogging service Twitter using its API’s latest (as of 2021) version 2. Data are saved to a SQLAlchemy/GeoAlchemy2-compatible database (currently only PostgreSQL/PostGIS is fully supported, SQLite with some limitations, see https://geoalchemy-2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). This package is available from the PyPi software repository: https://pypi.org/project/twitterhistory Its source code is hosted on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/christoph.fink/twitterhistory Note that the attached file (version 0.2.0) is up-to-date as of January 27, 2021, and newer versions will be published on PyPi and GitLab.

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Python, Social Media Data, Twitter

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